Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Word has been received from the head-quarters of the American Ambulance Field Service that the ambulance given by the Class of 1910 at the sexennial celebration last June has been assigned to Section 3, which is now at Salonika. Lovering Hill '10 is director of that section, and Henry Palmer '10 is the driver of the class ambulance. The work of the section has been so successful that General Sarrail has asked for another...
...possible that the lessons obvious- ly enforced by our own history, end, above all, by the recent lamentable breakdown of the European system of military preparedness and armed alliances, should be so completely lost sight of, as is suggested by this proposal to overturn American ideals--to depart from the traditional American policy, as President Nicholas Murray Butler has said, "in the face of the most impressive and emphatic lesson that history records that the traditional American policy has been right"? The advocates of this program of military defence seem wholly to overlook the fact that our national security...
...interest of powerful and unscrupulous commercial, manufacturing and financial combinations, who, for their own selfish purposes, play upon the public's sense of fear, patriotism or national pride. "National honor" and "manifest destiny" represent hackneyed--though, alas, still potent--catch-words employed in this connection. What assurance has the American people that a vast and efficient military establishment will not constitute such a source of temptation to our imperialistic interests as inevitably to be used for purposes of foreign exploitation? We have, since the Spanish-American War, embarked on a career of imperialism, which, together with the fact...
...because of a deficient sense of obligation for their country's needs? These are the men who think less of what they can give to their country than of what they can get out of their country; who, while claiming all the ample privileges and protection accorded by the American government to its citizens, prefer to think that their duties end with the payment of a certain amount of taxes...
...course, it is not our desire to cast such an implication on the President, and we, meaning the American people in general, have continually indicated that we should be rather pleased to undertake this task of reconstructing Europe and the world. In fact, that is precisely the criticism that Europe has had of us thus far--in our, "better than thou" attitude we have comfortably sat back, expressing our disapproval of that barbarous Europe, accompanying it with manifold suggestions as to how she may become as advanced...